Armed Neighborhood Patrols: The Future Of America
BY Herschel Smith4 years, 3 months ago
Via Insty, this quote (because I don’t quote information from behind a paywall).
Minneapolis residents in some areas still recovering from rioting and unrest are forming community watch and security groups, some bearing firearms, to fight a surge of crime in the wake of the George Floyd killing in May. At least one neighborhood has put up barricades to keep away outsiders.
The moves come as the city council on Friday approved its first permanent cuts to the police budget, amid calls to defund the department and generally lower tax revenue due to the economic strain caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The $193 million police budget will be cut by $10 million, including making permanent some temporary spending measures—including a hiring freeze—put in place in June. Around $1 million from the police budget is being shifted to a program called Cure Violence that tries to prevent things such as retaliatory shootings through community engagement. . . .
Police say the increase in crime follows a pattern seen in Ferguson, Mo., and other places where there have been high-profile officer-involved deaths and protests. Police say that, while some in the city seem to believe police have given up, officers remain on patrol throughout the city.
As riots played out across the city in late May and early June, a group of Black gun owners responded to a call from the local NAACP and patrolled the mostly African-American West Broadway business district for 10 nights, keeping the area free of looting or arson without firing a shot, said Jamil Jackson, a leader of the group called the Minnesota Freedom Fighters, which advocates for Black gun ownership. . . .
Council member Linea Palmisano said armed neighborhood patrols, or even efforts to just keep unfamiliar people out of a neighborhood, opens a Pandora’s box.
“We are lurching for solutions,” she said, noting she doesn’t support the idea of doing away with the police department but supports the idea of letting residents vote on it.
With the neighborhood patrols, “you could very easily create the same things we rally against,” she said.
In late June, residents near a commercial strip that had been looted, and the 3rd Precinct station that was abandoned and burned, were seeing a surge of shooting and drug-related crime on their block.
“It got to the point where crime had no consequences,” said Tania Rivera, 30, who runs a child-care center with her mother. “It was being done deliberately out in the open. Drive-through drug dealing, drive-through prostitution, everything from gunshots to assaults to sex out in the public. Everything you didn’t want your neighborhood to look like.”
So after a number of community meetings, neighbors began constructing a barrier to close off two blocks of their street, first with trash cans, then debris. For a while, a boat on a trailer protected one intersection. Eventually, a nearby iron maker constructed a permanent gate. Police gave their approval as long as emergency responders could get through if requested by the neighborhood.
Neighborhood men also began an armed patrol, kicking out anyone who didn’t belong on the block after dark.
And thus it will be in the future, everywhere.
If the current communist revolution in America has done nothing else, it seems to have convinced people of the truth concerning police, i.e., [1] they are beholden to and controlled by the local political powers and will do their bidding, and [2] they were never really there to protect people to begin with.
Regular readers already know, based on Castle Rock v. Gonzales and Warren v. D.C., that the police aren’t there to provide protection anyway.
Now, the mask has not just slipped down, but completely off. Men must protect their families, legally and morally. It’s the righteous thing to do.
On July 27, 2020 at 11:46 pm, AZM said:
Any stats on police officer attrition?
On July 28, 2020 at 7:03 am, James said:
Kudos to these folks trying to make their neighborhood a better/safer place and taking matters in their own hands to do it.I would also say tis nice to see the police/emt services ect. willing to work with these people.This will lead to in some ways quicker response times to problems but more it is a good deterrence that will not allow as much problems to even begin.
On July 28, 2020 at 7:36 am, Longbow said:
“Men must protect their families, legally and morally. It’s the righteous thing to do.”
Always has been. Always will be. Amen.
On July 28, 2020 at 7:40 am, Fred said:
“$1 million from the police budget is being shifted to a program called Cure Violence that tries to prevent things such as retaliatory shootings through community engagement”
The governments of America are a Godless wasteland. The blind are truly leading the blind. No amount feel-good-throw-money-at-it-ism can save them. Only the Gospel of Jesus Christ can turn a man away from his sin.
But yes, neighborhood watches stepped up to more than watching because nobody is coming to save you. I’m for defunding, disarming, and disbanding the standing army police state. The next logical step is to set up local Judges to uphold Bible-Law in that area.
On July 28, 2020 at 9:01 am, Frank Clarke said:
“…letting residents vote on it.”
How magnanimous!
On July 28, 2020 at 10:38 am, AZM said:
Herschel
https://videos.utahgunexchange.com/watch/americas-frontline-doctors-capitol-hill-press-conference_sq8Hr6JATDuOeiZ.html
Watch this before it’s taken down. Drs talk more about Hydroxyqloroquine and patients. GoogleFakebook Etc keep taking it down
On July 28, 2020 at 10:41 am, Berglander said:
Building trust in our own neighborhoods is paramount. Get out and meet your neighbors. Have a barbecue. Find out their interests and make it a point to do those things with them. Slowly ‘subvert’ them to your cause…with how things are these days, they’ll likely bring up the “Shit just ain’t right!” angle to you on their own.
On July 28, 2020 at 11:58 am, J J said:
@Berglander – how would you handle those neighbors who have fully revealed themselves as leftists by displaying political yard signs, bumper stickers, campaigning for communists?
On July 28, 2020 at 4:23 pm, Papa said:
Enter the warlords, feifdoms, tribute and tolls, and hair trigger vigilante “justice”.
We saw a sample of that recently in Milwaukee during a search for missing girls.
On July 28, 2020 at 4:29 pm, Herschel Smith said:
@Papa,
Which is why there must be armed neighborhood patrols.
On July 28, 2020 at 6:48 pm, Fred said:
with Bible-Law judges
On July 28, 2020 at 7:31 pm, sirlancelot said:
” in the wake of the George Floyd killing ” ?
So the Police MURDERED this innocent man ? The same individual who threatened and harrassed a shopkeeper, fought and assaulted 4 police officers and subsequently perished thanks to the massive amounts of drugs in his system ?
The autopsy stated there was no blunt trauma to the neck and the technique used by officer was sanctioned by the department. Yet here it is again someone repeating the lies of fake news.
People get the government they deserve . . . . . . standby